# The hidden world beneath the shadows of YouTube's algorithm

<https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250306-inside-youtubes-hidden-world-of-forgotten-videos>

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- Saved: March 10, 2025 (2025-03-10T12:07:45Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

YouTube is so hard for me to classify. Is it a social platform? Yeah. Is it Internet infrastructure? Yeah. Is it archiving all video for the future? Yeah. Is it radicalizing people? Yeah. I’m left with it is a platform, and an incredibly powerful one used in many ways.

## Facts

- Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/)

## Appears in

- [WT313: Weekly Thing 313 / Agentic, Shadows, WireMock](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/313/), Briefly

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## Elsewhere

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